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Easter presents for the kids. Think my kids are getting spoiled.
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Oh I forgot to mention bought the misses a 1 month tanning package an for myself a ntbm t-shirt an a bottle of hcgenerate. Monies are tight.
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^^^ THIS, easter presents, srsly? wow
Black diamonds *drools*
The one you pay you shouldnt buy anything more for since he's making his own money, $20 an hour? daaamn.... that's $8 more an hour than I make....
Just make sure you never give them gifts for compensation(missing a life event, fighting with them or the misus, etc) also they all have everything so dont buy them more for quite a while, they have everything in technology now.Try giving them more time, when they grow up and you're gone that's what they get to keep, go to movies, take them to dinner, go paintballing, to theme parks, etc
That is why I got us all the ATV's , a new truck and a trailer. I take them all out in the woods all the time and we rip shit up.. we watch a movie every Friday night. I take them out to breakfast every Saturday morning and some family fun of some kind that day. Go back to work Sunday till next weekend.. I spend as much time as I can with them without my companies suffering.
That's what I got Abby. Easter basket, candy and an Easter dress. Really, the Easter dress was for me. She couldn't care less what she wears.
Well it sounds like you're doing things right then, kids stay out of trouble, you spend time with them, etc just keep up the good work, keep an interest in their life, who they hang out with, if their behavior changes, if their grade change, other than that you're good, just try to keep gift giving as a birthday and Christmas occasion or for rewarding purposes.
You can also try to get them to volunteer every now and then in different things so they can get a view of other less fortunate people's lives, this can help them appreciate what they have and fight for it.
As a kid on christmas before we could get our toys mom made us separate unused toys from our current stash to give to others, you can do that with them too.
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First of all Ms.. I personally was never broke. I've risen to the top of everything I ever did. E6 in the army, Top paid chef after and so on. The only time I was ever poor was when I gave up my job for a dream and it paid off .. But make no mistake the only time I was ever poor was when I choice to be poor for a time. And for the record I make investments of all kinds all the time. So you can save the don't know how to act dumb shit..
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Well, since I basically work my ass off to pay bills and we are just getting by being able to buy food and have money for gas, as I have to work for supplements lol 
...my little girl got to have 2 egg hunts which consisted of real dyed hard boiled eggs and plastic eggs with some change, chocolates, and jelly beans. I have an older "entitled" daughter, we had spent thousands of dollars on a at risk teen theraputic wilderness program in N. Carolina, then 2 years of private high school (the wilderness program suggested boarding school, we opted out of that, went for less expensive route), and then we tried to save money and enrolled her into Middle College...big mistake...I ended up gasping my last breath trying to bail her out of trouble for a physical altercation with another student, and had always bailed her out, never let her fall...my fault...she just knew daddy would rescue her. She was always on restriction yes, so through these events when she turned 18 she left middle fingers in the air not wanting to live by rules, or be respectful to mom and dad...and guess what, we spoiled her when we could just because of the same thing you said Nate...give them what we never got...so it does seem absurd to me to give gifts at Easter, but who is to say I wouldn't if I had the money...because I am a sucker for daddy's little girls! Big ass sap! My youngest is 6, she is a good girl, last week when we were struggling to get groceries she came up to me with a $5 bill and said "here daddy, this is for groceries"...when she walked away I started crying. In this day and age it is fucked up out there, and we need to teach our kids the meaning of hard work, because the kids these days have no fucking work ethic at all because of too much being handed to them for what? Nothing! Just because we didn't get it when we were kids...bullshit! I am learning the finer art of parenting by too many costly mistakes...oh, and back to my oldest daughter, when she left home thinking her so called friends were going to take care of her and help her become independent and be an adult, two of the friends places she was at she was kicked out after a month due to not paying rent or utilities, stealing from them, not paying for food, then ended up where she is today...grandmas! Grandma won't kick her out, she uses grandmas car daily, doesn't pay for shit, and we get the phone calls daily grandma saying she can't take ot anymore, but she won't do anything about it...so my oldest just does as she pleases without any regard for grandma or the family.
Entitlement is a slippery slope with kids these days, they all seem to have it in some form, and I am as much to blame for it as they are by what I did or didn't do as a father to teach them lessons in life...so no disrespect, gifts at Easter is kind of overdoing it IMO.
Hopefully your kids appreciate it...but it sounds like the oldest is already having some wrong thought processes going by wanting to.drop out of school and work for dads lucrative supplement business...tell him he needs to get a degree in business if he wants to go that route and it doesn't matter how or what dad did to get where he is today, but bottom line...it was all about hard work.
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...my little girl got to have 2 egg hunts which consisted of real dyed hard boiled eggs and plastic eggs with some change, chocolates, and jelly beans. I have an older "entitled" daughter, we had spent thousands of dollars on a at risk teen theraputic wilderness program in N. Carolina, then 2 years of private high school (the wilderness program suggested boarding school, we opted out of that, went for less expensive route), and then we tried to save money and enrolled her into Middle College...big mistake...I ended up gasping my last breath trying to bail her out of trouble for a physical altercation with another student, and had always bailed her out, never let her fall...my fault...she just knew daddy would rescue her. She was always on restriction yes, so through these events when she turned 18 she left middle fingers in the air not wanting to live by rules, or be respectful to mom and dad...and guess what, we spoiled her when we could just because of the same thing you said Nate...give them what we never got...so it does seem absurd to me to give gifts at Easter, but who is to say I wouldn't if I had the money...because I am a sucker for daddy's little girls! Big ass sap! My youngest is 6, she is a good girl, last week when we were struggling to get groceries she came up to me with a $5 bill and said "here daddy, this is for groceries"...when she walked away I started crying. In this day and age it is fucked up out there, and we need to teach our kids the meaning of hard work, because the kids these days have no fucking work ethic at all because of too much being handed to them for what? Nothing! Just because we didn't get it when we were kids...bullshit! I am learning the finer art of parenting by too many costly mistakes...oh, and back to my oldest daughter, when she left home thinking her so called friends were going to take care of her and help her become independent and be an adult, two of the friends places she was at she was kicked out after a month due to not paying rent or utilities, stealing from them, not paying for food, then ended up where she is today...grandmas! Grandma won't kick her out, she uses grandmas car daily, doesn't pay for shit, and we get the phone calls daily grandma saying she can't take ot anymore, but she won't do anything about it...so my oldest just does as she pleases without any regard for grandma or the family. Entitlement is a slippery slope with kids these days, they all seem to have it in some form, and I am as much to blame for it as they are by what I did or didn't do as a father to teach them lessons in life...so no disrespect, gifts at Easter is kind of overdoing it IMO.
Hopefully your kids appreciate it...but it sounds like the oldest is already having some wrong thought processes going by wanting to.drop out of school and work for dads lucrative supplement business...tell him he needs to get a degree in business if he wants to go that route and it doesn't matter how or what dad did to get where he is today, but bottom line...it was all about hard work.
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